I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net

is the outer symbol of a spiritual alchemy of opposites, designed to seal an
inner transformation; it is not typically a form of divination or sorcery
The secret rite of the Vama Marga is a spiritual and physical
exchange of prolonged ecstasy flowing between the bipolar halves of divinity
manifested in the forces of Shiva and Shakti. Crowleyan sex magick is a
much more one-sided action, in which the male ejaculation is really all that
matters.
For all of the emphasis on sperm in the Crowley cult, female
secretions do play a part – even if a far lesser one – in some Thelemite sex
magick. One of the oracular commandments in The Book Of The Law
proclaims that "the best blood is of the moon, monthly." This fairly
transparent reference to menstrual blood has led Crowleyans to craft holy
wafers made of menstrual blood and sperm; these "cakes of light" are the
eucharist meal consumed by celebrants of some versions of the Crowleyan
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Gnostic Mass. The Mass of menstrual blood and semen can be traced to the
Gnostic libertine practices previously described as a juxtaposition of the
right-hand Logos and the left-hand Sophia. The "light" consumed in the
cakes of light is that spark of divinity, central to Gnostic soulcraft.
Considering that such a mixture of bodily fluids can conceivably be fatal in
the era of AIDS, some modern-day Crowleyans bake these eucharist cakes at
temperatures high enough to theoretically kill the virus – a safe-sex magick
precaution the Beast never had to consider.
The Palace Of Shit And The Eye Of Horus
As unappetizing as these sperm and blood cakes of light may seem to some,
the ingredients required for Crowley's private celebration of Thelemic
eucharist is even more of an acquired taste. In his Magical Record Of The
Beast, dating from 1920, he writes that "In my Mass the Host is of
excrement, that I can consume in awe and adoration."
Crowley's employment of shit, both human and animal, as a magical
condiment, obviously bears comparison with the practices of the extreme
left-hand path sects of India, who include ritualized coprophagia in their
methodical overcoming of societal taboo and personal disgust. In his 1929
Magick In Theory And Practice, Crowley gives advice to the aspirant
magician that would be familiar to the left-hand path adept. He recommends
"training the mind and body to confront things which cause fear, pain,
disgust, shame, and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become
indifferent to them, then to analyse them until they give pleasure and
instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of
Truth."
"When this has been done," Crowley sensibly suggests, "he should
abandon them if they are really harmful in relation to health or comfort." As
is so often the case, the Beast offered others sage counsel he himself often
ignored to his peril.
Crowley's records make no mention of the use of excrement in
Tantric alchemy, which, in any event, is not connected to the blasphemy of
Catholic ceremony suggested by Crowley His practice of a "Mass... [thats]
...Host is of excrement" also recalls more familiar European accounts of the
Black Sabbath, in which Satanists were described as eating fecal wafers in
mockery of the Catholic Mass. But these accounts of Satanic coprophagia
were most likely fantasies concocted by Christian witch-hunters rather than a
true left-hand path tradition of reversed rites. The infamous nineteenth
century French Satanists, the Abbé Boullan and his mistress Adele Chevalier,
a former nun, did offer hosts of excrement to their flock in the Church of
Carmel, as part of their dutiful acting out of medieval Christian nightmares of
diablerie. However, Crowley, for all of his reactionary tirades against
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orthodox Christianity, was not operating from Boullan's Satanic view – he